Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Extend formula handling to cope with actuarial notation
Extend formula handling to cope with actuarial notation
- Problem: I'm looking to improve the formatting of actuarial notation on Wikimedia sites. The most important bit that is missing from the current capabilities is the angle notation used to denote a period of years (but there are other features of the notation which are also difficult to implement). In the example image to the right, it's the angle over the 'n' that is marked as '3'.
Our current workaround is to use a separate horizontal and vertical line, thus: . But it's a poor workaround, as you can see.
- Proposed solution: There is a TeX extension that provides all the required functionality for actuarial notation: actuarialsymbol. Adding this (or a similar equivalent package) to the Wikimedia installation solves the problem.
- Who would benefit: Users reading and writing about actuarial mathematics.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T175673
- Proposer: Stelio (talk) 12:42, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
- See also Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multimedia and Commons/Ease the creation of diagrams for a similar specialised TeX editor. ~ Seb35 [^_^] 13:38, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Voting
- Support NMaia (talk) 23:27, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:39, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support --NGC 54 (talk|contribs) 01:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Hehua (talk) 02:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 06:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Bluerasberry (talk) 14:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support CROIX (talk) 15:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support This is needed for mathematics expression. Thingofme (talk) 16:04, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Radio-Somewhere (talk) 16:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 22:05, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Toadspike (talk) 22:37, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Ahkei (talk) 01:31, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Aaron Liu (talk) 03:19, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support The only proposal which has anything to do with mathematics. (I was looking for a proposal, which enables mathimatical operations in a Wiki table. I haven't found one. This was the closest. Therefore I wote on it.) Editor Pirate (talk) 10:11, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Sun8908 (talk) 16:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Alireza.zahraee (talk) 07:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support +1 YjM (talk) 00:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support cyrfaw (talk) 12:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 07:29, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 17:16, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support GBSCHFRUSONI (talk) 19:41, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Phatom87 (talk) 16:52, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support —(ping on reply)—CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 21:39, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Thastp (talk) 10:44, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Fabius Lector (talk) 11:15, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support 56independent (talk) 11:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Elucches (talk) 22:22, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Althair (talk) 02:00, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Hans5958 (talk) 02:30, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support DrowssapSMM (talk) 16:46, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support ~ Seb35 [^_^] 13:40, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Morten Haan (talk) 18:17, 22 February 2023 (UTC)